Madeleine O'Dea
@madeleineodea.bsky.social
Writer at large. Author of The Phoenix Years, Allen & Unwin, 2016; Pegasus Books, 2017. Contributor to The Beijing Bureau, Hardie Grant, 2021. Deep in a new book ✍️ AKA: 欧美琳 madeleineodea.com
This morning at #BlackWattleBay #Sydney 🌞
August 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This morning at #BlackWattleBay #Sydney 🌞
How it started, how it's going 😃
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
How it started, how it's going 😃
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
June 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
If you're in Sydney, don't miss this show. (it runs till the end of the month) #China #ContemporaryArt #Xinjiang 🀄️
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If you're in Sydney, don't miss this show. (it runs till the end of the month) #China #ContemporaryArt #Xinjiang 🀄️
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...
vermilionart.com.au/exhibition/a...
Good morning Skysters 🌞
March 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Good morning Skysters 🌞
March 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Always nice to see your book in the wild, but especially in such interesting company (at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) 😃📚 #ThePhoenixYears #ContemporaryArt #China #ArtGalleryofNSW #BookSky 🀄️
February 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Always nice to see your book in the wild, but especially in such interesting company (at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) 😃📚 #ThePhoenixYears #ContemporaryArt #China #ArtGalleryofNSW #BookSky 🀄️
February 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The last weekend of Magritte at the Art Gallery of NSW. Why did I wait so long? #artsky #Magritte #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney
February 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The last weekend of Magritte at the Art Gallery of NSW. Why did I wait so long? #artsky #Magritte #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney
February 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I met Marianne Faithfull in 1996, when I produced an interview she did for ABC TV. We’d been given strict instructions by her “people” on no account to get personal, and in particular to NEVER MENTION MICK JAGGER. She was touring Australia with a new show based on her interpretation of Kurt Weill
January 31, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I met Marianne Faithfull in 1996, when I produced an interview she did for ABC TV. We’d been given strict instructions by her “people” on no account to get personal, and in particular to NEVER MENTION MICK JAGGER. She was touring Australia with a new show based on her interpretation of Kurt Weill
新年快乐🎉 Happy New Year everyone! May the “little dragon” be kinder to us than its big brother was in the past year 😎 A Very Happy Year of the Snake to you all! 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🀄️
January 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
新年快乐🎉 Happy New Year everyone! May the “little dragon” be kinder to us than its big brother was in the past year 😎 A Very Happy Year of the Snake to you all! 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🀄️
Contemplating my 2025 bookstack 😃📚 #booksky
#HanKang #MurakamiHaruki #Kawabata #HilaryMantel #SiangLu #WillSelf #MaryRenault #Cities #GhostCities #WeimarRepublic #Rome #AlexandertheGreat #Greece #Gwangju #Japan #China
#HanKang #MurakamiHaruki #Kawabata #HilaryMantel #SiangLu #WillSelf #MaryRenault #Cities #GhostCities #WeimarRepublic #Rome #AlexandertheGreat #Greece #Gwangju #Japan #China
January 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Contemplating my 2025 bookstack 😃📚 #booksky
#HanKang #MurakamiHaruki #Kawabata #HilaryMantel #SiangLu #WillSelf #MaryRenault #Cities #GhostCities #WeimarRepublic #Rome #AlexandertheGreat #Greece #Gwangju #Japan #China
#HanKang #MurakamiHaruki #Kawabata #HilaryMantel #SiangLu #WillSelf #MaryRenault #Cities #GhostCities #WeimarRepublic #Rome #AlexandertheGreat #Greece #Gwangju #Japan #China
David Bowie: 8/1/47 - 10/1/2016. 💜 9 years today. Unbelievable #DavidBowie
January 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
David Bowie: 8/1/47 - 10/1/2016. 💜 9 years today. Unbelievable #DavidBowie
Hugh Joseph Linus O'Dea, 3 January 1962 - 28 September 2003. Miss you every single day 💜
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hugh Joseph Linus O'Dea, 3 January 1962 - 28 September 2003. Miss you every single day 💜
Tainan, the old capital, is chill central 😎Hand painted signs, art deco buildings, wonderful street food, especially at breakfast ☕️ It also has an excellent fine art museum. Kaohsiung has a great contemporary art etc scene. Also good for cycling, seafood, a swim in the Taiwan strait 😉
December 31, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Tainan, the old capital, is chill central 😎Hand painted signs, art deco buildings, wonderful street food, especially at breakfast ☕️ It also has an excellent fine art museum. Kaohsiung has a great contemporary art etc scene. Also good for cycling, seafood, a swim in the Taiwan strait 😉
Bird flies out of a ruined fresco in the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompei. Brought to Canberra by the National Museum of Australia. In awe 💜 #NationalMuseumofAustralia #Pompei #Canberra #Frescoes #art
December 30, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Bird flies out of a ruined fresco in the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompei. Brought to Canberra by the National Museum of Australia. In awe 💜 #NationalMuseumofAustralia #Pompei #Canberra #Frescoes #art
Moved to see the standing ovation at the re-opening ceremony for Notre Dame for the firefighters of Paris who worked heroically to save the cathedral, some putting their lives in danger to save the towers
December 8, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Moved to see the standing ovation at the re-opening ceremony for Notre Dame for the firefighters of Paris who worked heroically to save the cathedral, some putting their lives in danger to save the towers
This is personal for me. Drugs and the cracked way we treat and police them at the root of so many mental health tragedies as they precipitate, exacerbate, and mask, serious mental illness
December 3, 2024 at 10:04 PM
This is personal for me. Drugs and the cracked way we treat and police them at the root of so many mental health tragedies as they precipitate, exacerbate, and mask, serious mental illness
Leura evening #Leura #BlueMountains 😃
December 2, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Leura evening #Leura #BlueMountains 😃
Cao Fei’s solo show “My City is Yours” (欢迎登陆) opens this weekend at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Brilliant, surreal, funny, disturbing, sad. Seriously, if you anywhere near Sydney between now and April 13 don’t miss it. #CaoFei #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney #China #art 🀄️
November 29, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Cao Fei’s solo show “My City is Yours” (欢迎登陆) opens this weekend at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. Brilliant, surreal, funny, disturbing, sad. Seriously, if you anywhere near Sydney between now and April 13 don’t miss it. #CaoFei #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney #China #art 🀄️
Almost With You 🎶
November 23, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Almost With You 🎶
Post you from a different era ... what being a foreign correspondent can do for you 🤣 China 86; PNG 92
#journalism #China 🀄️
#journalism #China 🀄️
November 20, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Post you from a different era ... what being a foreign correspondent can do for you 🤣 China 86; PNG 92
#journalism #China 🀄️
#journalism #China 🀄️